A YOUNG woman has revealed how she pees through her belly button after a devastating car accident left her paralysed Steph Aiello, from California, US, was due to start make-up artists training in October 2010. 2 Steph Aiello was left paralysed following a car accident Credit: Instagram / @uwalk_iglide 2 A life-changing procedure routing the bladder to her belly button allowed her to regain control of her body Credit: Instagram / @uwalk_iglide But just a day before it began the now 26-year-old was involved in a major crash that killed one of her closest friends and left her paralysed from the waist down. In a video shared with her 260,000 Instagram followers, the quadriplegic beauty influencer shows how she uses the toilet, aiming to break the stigma around disability worldwide.
In the clip, she opened up about the interesting sign that tells her she needs to use the toilet. "My eyes start to water," she said, explaining that this signals an immune reaction called autonomic dysreflexia. Read more on botox BOTOX TO KO B.
O. Demand for Botox jabs to stop sweat and body odour doubles in a year FILL OF DANGER Warning as just 1 in 3 Botox & lip filler jabs are done by qualified medics Autonomic dysreflexia is an excessive nervous system response to stimulation. It involves several symptoms including sweating and racing heart rate, and causes blood pressure to rapidly rise.
For those with spinal cord injury, it is commonly triggered when the bladder is full and needs to be emptied. .